non-western characters in links and JAVASCRIPT?

VK · Feb 4 '06, 05:35 PM

Re: non-western characters in links and JAVASCRIPT?

namemattersnot@ msn.com wrote:[color=blue]
> re,
>
> I have the following problem: links containinig cyrillic characters do
> not display by the javascript.
>
> server-side PHP script encodes them with rawurlecode() function and
> everything works in Firefox , however, the encoded link does not work
> in IE and only when trying to open it from within a javascript.
>
> Here's the example: http://tmd.df.ru/test
>
> Any ideas? :)[/color]

What encoding is set in Content-Type by your server?

**namemattersnot@msn.com** · Feb 4 '06, 05:55 PM

Re: non-western characters in links and JAVASCRIPT?

honestly - i don't know. i've tested it on 3 different servers (one
located in Russia, 1 in the States, and one installed on my own box)
and regardless of the content-type that I specify in the <meta tag>,
the problem still persists.

i don't have a single other problem displaying links encoded in KOI8-R,
CP1251, etc.

**Gérard Talbot** · Feb 4 '06, 06:25 PM

Re: non-western characters in links and JAVASCRIPT?

namemattersnot@ msn.com wrote :

1-
Re-edit your document so that <title> is inside the <head> part:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="ru" lang="ru">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1251"></meta>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="ru"></meta>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"></meta>

<title>test</title>

(...)

</head>

<body>

2-
If you are going to serve your document as text/html, then why do you
choose XHTML 1.0 strict? HTML 4.01 strict would do just fine.

3-
HTML 4.01 section B.2.1 Non-ASCII characters in URI attribute values

Performance, Implementation, and Design Notes

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/appendix/notes.html#non-ascii-chars

I would escape the non-ascii characters as suggested by the HTML 4.01
spec: "Escape these bytes with the URI escaping mechanism (i.e., by
converting each byte to %HH, where HH is the hexadecimal notation of the
byte value)."

Gérard
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VK · Feb 4 '06, 06:46 PM

Re: non-western characters in links and JAVASCRIPT?

namemattersnot@ msn.com wrote:[color=blue]
> honestly - i don't know. i've tested it on 3 different servers (one
> located in Russia, 1 in the States, and one installed on my own box)
> and regardless of the content-type that I specify in the <meta tag>,
> the problem still persists.
>
> i don't have a single other problem displaying links encoded in KOI8-R,
> CP1251, etc.[/color]

This works just fine (presuming paneuropean support is installed):

That should be the word "Russian" written in Russian through all
samples. Edit if jamed by newsreader. Also check that the declared
encoding corresponds to the *actual encoding used to type the text*
(thus to not bother with any other encoding issues: only the encoding
used to type the text and meta-content-type matching to that encoding).

<html>
<head>
<title>Russia n</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=windows-1251">
<script type="text/javascript" charset="window s-1251">
function test(v) {
alert(v);
alert('Ð ÑƒÑÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹');
}
</script>
</head>

<body>

<p>
<a href="foo.html" onclick="test(' Ð ÑƒÑÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹'); return
false;">Ð ÑƒÑÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹</a>
</p>

</body>
</html>

**namemattersnot@msn.com** · Feb 4 '06, 06:46 PM

Re: non-western characters in links and JAVASCRIPT?

Gérard, thanks for the answer. this doesn't seem to be the
content-type problem nor my compliance with XHTML or HTML standards :)
just in case, i've modified the file as per your suggetion; alas, to no
avail.

non-ascii characters are escaped/converted using the PHP's
rawurlencode() function. as you can see.. it works without the
javascript in IE but doesn't when i pass the link to my script.

odd.

**namemattersnot@msn.com** · Feb 4 '06, 06:57 PM

Re: non-western characters in links and JAVASCRIPT?

VK,

your little example works just fine. still.. i don't have an answer to
my original post :)

this has been bugging me a couple of days now.

VK · Feb 4 '06, 07:15 PM

Re: non-western characters in links and JAVASCRIPT?

namemattersnot@ msn.com wrote:[color=blue]
> VK,
>
> your little example works just fine. still.. i don't have an answer to
> my original post :)
>
> this has been bugging me a couple of days now.[/color]

Indicate the right charset in the page head and <script> (if needed).
If you want to have extra chars in the page text, use &...; form
If you want to have extra chars in your script use \uFFFF form

%FF form is *not* legal neither in HTML text nor in script. Do not
confuse it with urlencoded GET request. Bring your page into right form
and be happy ever after :-)

**namemattersnot@msn.com** · Feb 4 '06, 07:35 PM

Re: non-western characters in links and JAVASCRIPT?

the right charset is already indicated in the head section. russian
characters, therefore, are properly displayed. why wouldn't links work?
how do i encode them then?

VK · Feb 4 '06, 08:05 PM

Re: non-western characters in links and JAVASCRIPT?

namemattersnot@ msn.com wrote:[color=blue]
> the right charset is already indicated in the head section. russian
> characters, therefore, are properly displayed. why wouldn't links work?
> how do i encode them then?[/color]

Again: %FF format is not valid neither in the HTML page nor within
<script> literals

This part:
<a href="test_%20% F0%F3%F1%F1%EA% E8%E9%201.gif">
is not valid.

Make sure that it's a plain Russian text in the encoding matching to
the declared Content-Type.

**namemattersnot@msn.com** · Feb 4 '06, 08:15 PM

Re: non-western characters in links and JAVASCRIPT?

but you can see the first link. encoding matches. characters are
properly displayed, yet IE does not want to open that link at all:

http://tmd.df.ru/test/test_%20Ñ€ÑƒÑÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹%201.gif

only: http://tmd.df.ru/test/test_%20%F0%F3...%E8%E9%201.gif

**Gérard Talbot** · Feb 4 '06, 10:25 PM

Re: non-western characters in links and JAVASCRIPT?

namemattersnot@ msn.com wrote :[color=blue]
> Gérard, thanks for the answer. this doesn't seem to be the
> content-type problem nor my compliance with XHTML or HTML standards :)
> just in case, i've modified the file as per your suggetion; alas, to no
> avail.
>[/color]

Well, this should always be your first step whenever a page has some
problem: validate the markup and CSS code, then the problem gets easier
to figure out as you're eliminating a potential source of the problem
otherwise the problem often disappears.
[color=blue]
> non-ascii characters are escaped/converted using the PHP's
> rawurlencode() function. as you can see.. it works without the
> javascript in IE but doesn't when i pass the link to my script.
>
> odd.
>[/color]

You do not need that rawurlencode function. You can escape the href
value while not escaping the anchor node.

Maybe I misunderstand your problem. I still don't see why you need
javascript in there.

Gérard
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**namemattersnot@msn.com** · Feb 4 '06, 10:35 PM

Re: non-western characters in links and JAVASCRIPT?

Javascript makes some neat effect with the picture. take a look in
Firefox.

in any case, i am grateful for all of your comments. thank you! I will
take a look at it in a couple of days -- too annoyed at the moment :)

**Ge'rard Talbot** · Feb 5 '06, 11:45 AM

Re: non-western characters in links and JAVASCRIPT?

namemattersnot@ msn.com wrote :[color=blue]
> Javascript makes some neat effect with the picture. take a look in
> Firefox.[/color]

What has the visual effect on the image to do with non-ascii characters
in the href value? This is what I do not understand.

[color=blue]
> in any case, i am grateful for all of your comments. thank you! I will
> take a look at it in a couple of days -- too annoyed at the moment :)[/color]

This is how I would code your link:

<a href="test_%20% F0%F3%F1%F1%EA% E8%E9%201.gif"> test_ ?o'n~n~e^e`e' 1.gif</a>

and this is what browsers like Mozilla and Firefox do: they
convert/escape accordingly non-ascii characters the way indicated in
section B.2.1

This post was windows-1251 encoded.

Gerard
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**Ge'rard Talbot** · Feb 5 '06, 11:45 AM

Re: non-western characters in links and JAVASCRIPT?

namemattersnot@ msn.com wrote :[color=blue]
> Javascript makes some neat effect with the picture. take a look in
> Firefox.[/color]

What has the visual effect on the image to do with non-ascii characters
in the href value? This is what I do not understand. What has the visual
effect on the image to do with the non-ascii characters?

[color=blue]
> in any case, i am grateful for all of your comments. thank you! I will
> take a look at it in a couple of days -- too annoyed at the moment :)[/color]

This is how I would code your link:

<a href="test_%20% F0%F3%F1%F1%EA% E8%E9%201.gif"> test_ ?o'n~n~e^e`e' 1.gif</a>

and this is what browsers like Mozilla and Firefox do: they
convert/escape accordingly non-ascii characters the way indicated in
section B.2.1 In the above example, you do it for MSIE 6+.

This post was windows-1251 encoded.

Gerard
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